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I'm Eirene - backstreet pilgrim.

I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. My journey is taking me through the backstreets,

not by any main route into the city.

Walk with me.

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'Go to sleep in peace.

God is awake.'

Victor Hugo

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eirenepalmer

Dec 17, 2020
2 min

In the bleak midwinter

I’m missing my writer’s ears and eyes in this pandemic. I’m missing those overheard snatches of conversation in the swimming pool (I told...

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Dec 10, 2020
3 min

Locust three ways

I didn’t plan to be a single parent. Very few people do. But it happened. Aged thirty-three, my life felt as though it had been scripted...

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Dec 3, 2020
3 min

Homeward Bound

Sometimes in a church service, a word or a phrase insists on being noticed. It jumps off the page, and hits you right between the eyes,...

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Nov 26, 2020
4 min

To control or embrace?

Last Sunday was the Feast of Christ the King. It marks, I am reliably informed, the end of the cycle of the church’s year. I knew nothing...

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Nov 19, 2020
4 min

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson...

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Nov 12, 2020
3 min

Feeling Safer?

I don’t know about you, but my world feels safer than it did last week. Now that the election across the pond has delivered a rational,...

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Nov 5, 2020
4 min

Making A Choice?

I was reading Day 3 of the Principles the other day, and my hackles immediately rose. It says that the object of the Society of St...

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Oct 30, 2020
4 min

Being Known

To be known is a bit like coming home. To feel that someone else knows all your inconsistencies, your quirks, your foibles, your flashes...

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Oct 22, 2020
4 min

Faith and Doubt

I was raised in certainty. Doubt, ambiguity and paradox were not allowed. It was all as it was. Black or white. In or out. Saved or lost....

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Welcome!

Exploring your spiritual journey? Check out my blog

Are you a writer?

Interested in Franciscans?

To contact: backstreetpilgrim@gmail.com

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Exploring your spiritual journey?

Check out my blog